Robert N. Stanfield

Robert Nelson Stanfield (9 July 1877-13 April 1945) was US Senator from Oregon (R) from 4 March 1921 to 4 March 1927, succeeding George E. Chamberlain and preceding Frederick Steiwer.

Biography
Robert Nelson Stanfield was born in Umatilla, Oregon in 1877, and he became the owner of multiple ranches, becoming the world's largest sheep rancher (with 350,000 head of sheep) during World War I. From 1912 to 1918, he served in the Oregon State House of Representatives as a Republican Party member, and he then served in the US Senate from 1921 to 1927. He was opposed to both the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Ku Klux Klan, and he lost for re-election in 1926. He died in Weiser, Idaho in 1945.